Friday Afternoon Networking:
Connect with Advocacy Leaders and Other Advocates

Important! Bring your business cards! If you don’t have business cards, you’ll wish you did, so we’ve put together some information to help you develop them (and not waste money on cards that will be unusable later.) Creating Your Business Cards – Best Practices

Leaders:

As promised, several of our profession’s leaders will be attending our Summit Networking event. We have confirmed attendance from:

Martine Brousse

Karen Mercereau

Suzanne Fiscella

Rae Drazin

Sandy Thigpen

Brad Schwartz

Kathy King

Karen Curtiss

Trisha Torrey

Every one of these leaders is running a successful advocacy practice, and each will have stories and resources to share with you. You will be so happy you’ve had the opportunity to meet them!

They’ll be doing some short TED-style talks, leading group discussions on a variety of topics, and answering your questions about advocacy and the business of advocacy.

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You’ll have the opportunity to meet and thank our vendors!

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Getting excited? Want to connect with other attendees, or our leaders, before the event?

Plenty of time to connect, chat, and interview other advocates, including our leaders and vendors, and APHA leadership, too.

TED-style talks on topics of interest to help you further your practice.

A panel discussion about getting started with your advocacy practice, with our Leaders talking about “what I wish I had known.”

Break-out sessions with groups, according to interest. Groups will include: cancer advocates, eldercare advocates, overcoming fear of public speaking, dealing with out of network billing, why doctors love patient advocates, and patient advocacy and mental health.

Lots more networking time… and snacks!

And – a bonus for San Diego!

HBO producers (yes, that HBO) will be joining us during the Friday networking event to interview those of you with interesting stories to tell about the work you do, and why you do it. This is an incredible opportunity for those who are interested! (And yes, it’s OK to avoid the cameras, too… there is no expectation that you will participate if you don’t want to.)

Friday Evening: For those who are staying overnight until Saturday…. there will be no pre-planned APHA gathering for dinner, but we invite you to connect with others in the APHA Discussion Forum ahead of time to see who would like to go out in a group.